Best Alleys Quotations
159 Alleys quotes by 139 unique authors
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Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
— Raymond Chandler
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I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the…
— Gilbert Gottfried
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style…
— Alicia Keys
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Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you…
— Queen Latifah
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should…
— Malcolm X
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Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
— Martin Mull
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To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits…
— Susan Orlean
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I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards.…
— John C. Reilly
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To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.
— Jessica Simpson
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I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.'…
— Elaine Stritch
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Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you…
— Steven Tyler
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But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have…
— Carrie Underwood
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The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations…
— Peter Ustinov
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Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important…
— David Foster Wallace
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That cup of tea is definately not down your alley
— Jean Ferris
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You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.
— Henry Miller
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In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you…
— Daniel Handler
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Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'…
— Jack Kerouac
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When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I…
— Philip K. Dick
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
— Jack Kerouac
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I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
— Charles Simic
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He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was…
— Khaled Hosseini
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